MAY 12, 2000
Rick Wagonheim and Michael Miller, former mainstays at commercial production, feature visual effects, broadcast design, CGI and digital post shop R/Greenberg Associates, have been hired to head up New York-based Rhinoceros Visual Effects & Design as executive producers/partners….Director Graham Morris has signed for exclusive commercial representation with Duck Soup Studios, the Los Angeles-based animation house headed by executive producer Mark Medernach….Director Tony Diamond has come aboard No Prisoners, the Los Angeles-based commercial production house headed by president/executive producer Bruce Martin….Directors/designers Dan Yaccarino, Stacey Steers and Cathy Joritz, director Bill Kopp, and designers Aaron Augenblick and David Zweig have joined Denver-based animation/effects house, Celluloid Studios….
MAY 12, 1995
Director Willi Patterson, formerly of Willi Patterson Films (WPF), Los Angeles, has joined bicoastal GLG for exclusive presentation in commercials….Bicoastal production company BFCS has signed London-based directors Simon Delaney and Stuart and Andrew Douglas for exclusive representation in the U.S. spot market….New production house Avalon Images, Coral Gables, Fla., has signed director/cameraman Leo Kocking for exclusive U.S. representation….Principals/editors Steve Bodner and Ciro DeNettis have dissolved their 20-year-old company, The Editors Film & Video Services, to become staff editors at other New York houses. Bodner is now at Palestrini Postproduction; DeNettis went to Jeff Dell & Partners….Pacific Ocean Post (POP), Santa Monica, has added 3-D artist and animator Jennifer McKnew to the staff of its film division, POP Film….
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More